American historian, born at Fredericton, NB, on the 22nd of March 1824; came to the United States at the age of eighteen, and from 1847 to 1859 acted as secretary to Prescott, the historian. His publications include contributions to the North American Review and the Atlantic Monthly and a three-volume history of Charles the Bold (1863–68). For fourteen years, from 1871 to 1885, he edited Lippincott’s Magazine, and then became lecturer on European history in the University of Pennsylvania. He edited the complete works of William H. Prescott (1870–74). His wife, Ellen Warner Olney, an author, was born in Southington, CT, on the 6th of November 1842; author of Love in Idleness (1876); A Lesson in Love (1881); The Story of Margaret Kent, under the name “Henry Hayes” (1886); and Sons and Daughters (1887). See also Cambridge History.
